![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Ride for Cinderella, A - Handy (Jam) Organization
Cinderella relies on a Chevrolet to carry her home by midnight through obstacles and storms.
Keywords: Animation: Advertising; Folk tales; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 260,968
Average rating:  (9 reviews) |  |
| Master Hands (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Though ostensibly a tribute to the "master hands" of the assembly line workers, it seems more of a paean to the designers of this impressive mass production system. Filmed in Flint, Michigan, just months before the United Auto Workers won union recognition with their famous sitdown strikes. Released the same year as two other films with which it shares similarities: MODERN TIMES and TRIUMP...
Keywords: Automobiles: Manufacturing; Labor: 1930s; Occupations: Automotive
Downloads: 31,149
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Master Hands (Part IV) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Though ostensibly a tribute to the "master hands" of the assembly line workers, it seems more of a paean to the designers of this impressive mass production system. Filmed in Flint, Michigan, just months before the United Auto Workers won union recognition with their famous sitdown strikes. Selected for the 1999 National Film Registry of "artistically, culturally, and socially significant"...
Keywords: Automobiles: Manufacturing; Labor: 1930s; Occupations: Automotive
Downloads: 14,026
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Mother Takes a Holiday (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
How the all-electric home emancipates women: a drama of how the women in the family manipulate their men to upgrade the laundry facilities.
Keywords: Gender roles; Appliances: Sales; Home economics: Laundry
Downloads: 13,190
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Golden Years, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
Bowling made respectable and appealing to middle-class Americans through modernization and "Populuxe" design.
Keywords: Recreation; Sports: Bowling; Families
Downloads: 331,950
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Just a Spark - Handy (Jam) Organization
Chevrolet automobiles fight forest fires.
Keywords: Automobiles: Engineering
Downloads: 5,322
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Master Hands (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Though ostensibly a tribute to the "master hands" of the assembly line workers, it seems more of a paean to the designers of this impressive mass production system. Filmed in Flint, Michigan, just months before the United Auto Workers won union recognition with their famous sitdown strikes. Selected for the 1999 National Film Registry of "artistically, culturally, and socially significant"...
Keywords: Automobiles: Manufacturing; Labor: 1930s; Occupations: Automotive
Downloads: 13,060
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Looking Ahead Through Rohm & Haas Plexiglas (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Plastics industry makes the transition from military applications to peacetime futuristic designs.
Keywords: Materials: Plastics; Design
Downloads: 10,816
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 3, No. 2) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional newsreel containing a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories.
Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 16,999
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Master Hands (Part III) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Though ostensibly a tribute to the "master hands" of the assembly line workers, it seems more of a paean to the designers of this impressive mass production system. Filmed in Flint, Michigan, just months before the United Auto Workers won union recognition with their famous sitdown strikes. Selected for the 1999 National Film Registry of "artistically, culturally, and socially significant"...
Keywords: Automobiles: Manufacturing; Labor: 1930s; Occupations: Automotive
Downloads: 11,029
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Free and Easy - Handy (Jam) Organization
"OPERATION OF THE VACUUM GEARSHIFTING MECHANISM IN THE AUTOMOBILE IS EXPLAINED & COMPARED WITH THE FISH IN THE OCEAN, WHO ARE SUBJECTED TO TREMENDOUS PRESSURE CAUSED BY THE WEIGHT OF WATER ABOVE."
Downloads: 333
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| American Maker (Letterboxed Anamorphic Version) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Relates how Americans build, from youth throughout life, by using their ingenuity not only in technological advancement but in everyday efforts by everyone. This is the letterboxed anamorphic version.
Downloads: 301
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| American Maker - Handy (Jam) Organization
Relates how Americans build, from youth throughout life, by using their ingenuity not only in technological advancement but in everyday efforts by everyone.
Keywords: Chevrolet, industrial films, sponsored films, institutional advertising, automobiles, 1960s, suburbia
Downloads: 1,043
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Powr-Lok - Handy (Jam) Organization
1950's mom driving yellow Lincoln convertible, picks up son at end of school day. Tail fins, chrome.
Downloads: 785
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Young Man's Fancy - Handy (Jam) Organization
"In an all-out effort to cash in on this potential market, Edison Electric has pulled out all the stops in a gigantic All-Electric Kitchen Program. Almost every advertising medium is being used — radio spot announcements, newspapers, magazines, plan books, a 'Kitchenizer's Digest' of pertinent articles from women's magazines, outdoor posters, window display cards, envelope inserts, truck posters — and, of course, a 16mm motion picture." [The Constant Bride, produced by Wilding Picture Produc...
Downloads: 502
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Open Door: The Story of Foreman Jim Baxter and His Family, The (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
A General Motors foreman learns not just to be a better manager, but where his place is in the system of production.
Keywords: Management
Downloads: 2,320
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| American Look (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
The definitive Populuxe film on 1950s automotive, industrial, interior and architectural design.
Keywords: Design; Automobiles: Design and manufacturing; Futurism
Downloads: 57,360
Average rating: (14 reviews) |  |
| Your Name Here - Calvin Communications
The ultimate generic industrial film, built around every script and visual cliche.
Keywords: Motion pictures: Production; Motion pictures: Sponsored; Humor
Downloads: 58,104
Average rating: (42 reviews) |  |
| Back of the Mike - Handy (Jam) Organization
Insider's view of the 1930s radio studio showing the production of dramatic sound effects.
Keywords: Media: Radio; Perception: Sound
Downloads: 25,364
Average rating: (12 reviews) |  |
| Behind the Bright Lights - Handy (Jam) Organization
How Chevrolet's giant electric sign in downtown Chicago works.
Keywords: Advertising: Outdoor; Electricity; Chicago
Downloads: 10,103
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Girl on the Magazine Cover, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
How professional models (and new automobiles) are photographed.
Keywords: Gender roles; Automobiles: Advertising; Media: Photography
Downloads: 17,923
Average rating:  (6 reviews) |  |
| Curtiss-Wright Shorts (7 Subjects) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Short screen ads recruiting workers for aircraft manufacturing during World War II.
Keywords: World War II: Homefront; Advertising: Screen ads; Aviation: Manufacturing
Downloads: 6,448
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| What's It to You? (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Dramatic demonstration of the properties and uses of Mylar.
Keywords: Materials: Plastics
Downloads: 7,267
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Sky Billboards - Handy (Jam) Organization
How skywriting works -- and the making of an aerial Chevrolet advertisement.
Keywords: Advertising: Skywriting; Aviation: Skywriting; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 13,666
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| American Engineer (Part IV) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Tribute to engineers and their role in improving American life through technology.
Keywords: Engineering; Automobiles: Design and manufacturing; Manufacturing
Downloads: 8,497
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Sixth Sense, The
A very good film detailing the processes used in quality control of tobacco.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 5,048
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| 1955 Chevrolet Screen Ads - Handy (Jam) Organization
Ten short theatrical "screen ads" promoting the 1955 Chevrolet models.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; Advertising: Screen ads
Downloads: 81,411
Average rating: (14 reviews) |  |
| Great New Star, A - Handy (Jam) Organization
Dinah Shore promotes the new Chevrolets and sings "See the U.S.A. in your new Chevrolet."
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 37,779
Average rating: (10 reviews) |  |
| Match Your Mood
Promotional film for Westinghouse refrigerator line featuring a system of sticker-like decorations enabling purchasers to style their appliances as they choose. Vague hippie-type flower-power graphics; scenes of mod-dressed middle-class conventional people
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 21,226
Average rating: (17 reviews) |  |
| [Chevrolet Sales Convention Musical] - Handy (Jam) Organization
Rare record of song-and-dance at a Chevrolet sales convention, designed to motivate the sales force.
Keywords: Automobiles: Sales; Industrial theater; Advertising: In-house
Downloads: 10,669
Average rating: (12 reviews) |  |
| Tomorrow's Drivers - Handy (Jam) Organization
Socialization through driver education begins at a tender age in Phoenix.
Keywords: Car culture: Children; Automobiles: Advertising; Phoenix, Arizona
Downloads: 10,932
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| WJR: One of a Kind
Story of radio station WJR, Detroit. Many shots with local radio personalities in studio and people listening to the radio at home, in the ballpark at work and outdoors. Excellent, clear color film with good sequences and shots
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 7,370
Average rating: (9 reviews) |  |
| Around the Corner - Handy (Jam) Organization
How the automobile differential allows a vehicle to turn a corner while keeping the wheels from skidding.
Keywords: Automobiles: Engineering; Physics; Motorcycles
Downloads: 45,455
Average rating: (9 reviews) |  |
| Peg-Leg Pedro - Handy (Jam) Organization
Chevrolet advertising cartoon in Technicolor on a "Treasure Island" theme.
Keywords: Animation: Advertising; Automobiles: Advertising; Pirates
Downloads: 26,459
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Triumph of America (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Auto manufacturing as an expression (and motivator) of America's economic success.
Keywords: Advertising: General; Automobiles: Advertising; Free enterprise
Downloads: 6,475
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Chevrolet Advertising Rings the Bell
0594 PA8173 Chevrolet Advertising Rings the Bell
Keywords: need meta
Downloads: 4,337
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Roads to Romance: The Santa Cruz Trail and Land of the Giant Cactus - Handy (Jam) Organization
Travelogue, made for theatrical showing, promoting tourism in Arizona.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; Travelogues; Arizona
Downloads: 8,452
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Mullinaires, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
A chorus of kitchen salesmen sings an inspirational song to rally the rest of the troops.
Keywords: Appliances: Sales; Music: Choral; Rituals
Downloads: 5,428
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| American Look (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
The definitive Populuxe film on 1950s automotive, industrial, interior and architectural design.
Keywords: Design; Automobiles: Design and manufacturing; Futurism
Downloads: 37,895
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Sound And The Story - Handy (Jam) Organization
RCA Victor presents Sound and the Story, copyright Radio Corporation of America
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Consumerism; Media: Phonograph; Perception: Sound
Downloads: 19,598
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Unfinished Business - Handy (Jam) Organization
Postwar adjustment is easy for a young World War II veteran who is welcomed back to his job at U.S. Steel with a position, training courses, and counseling.
Keywords: World War II: Postwar issues; Occupations: Steelworkers; World War II: Industrial production
Downloads: 3,813
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| To New Horizons - Handy (Jam) Organization
Definitive document of pre-World War II futuristic utopian thinking, as envisioned by General Motors. Documents the "Futurama" exhibit in GM's "Highways and Horizons" pavilion at the World's Fair, which looks ahead to the "wonder world of 1960."
Keywords: Futurism; World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40; Infrastructure: Roads and highways
Downloads: 51,465
Average rating: (14 reviews) |  |
| Revolutionary New Triumph in Tape, A - Handy (Jam) Organization
Introducing the giant four-track tape cartridge, an obsolete consumer recording format that survived for eight years.
Keywords: Media: Tape recording
Downloads: 18,468
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Hired! - Handy (Jam) Organization
Quirky Chevrolet sales film.
Keywords: Sales: Training
Downloads: 5,682
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| How to Listen To... New Dimensions in Sound - Handy (Jam) Organization
Demonstration of the latest audio technology: stereo sound.
Keywords: Media: Phonograph; Music
Downloads: 20,347
Average rating: (10 reviews) |  |
| Turnabout Man - Handy (Jam) Organization
What happens when bad driving habits are mirrored in other parts of a driver's life.
Keywords: Social guidance
Downloads: 3,702
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Max Fleischer News Sketches
Humorous "sketches" of human interest stories by Max Fleischer, who headed Handy's animation department in the mid 1940s and 1950s.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 8,522
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| At the End of the Rainbow (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Sponsored film promoting ultraviolet light: its history, physics and health-giving properties.
Keywords: Medicine: Light therapy
Downloads: 14,140
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| Lucky Strike Cigarette Commercial: Marching Cigarettes - Handy (Jam) Organization
Lucky Strike cigarette commercial with stop-motion animation of marching cigarettes.
Keywords: Advertising: Television commercials; Substance abuse: Tobacco; Animation: Stop-motion
Downloads: 62,884
Average rating: (15 reviews) |  |
| Precisely So (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Surreal film on measurement of tiny quantities.
Keywords: Physics: Measurement; Engineering; Animation: Stop-motion
Downloads: 9,870
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
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